On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 19:39:31 +0000, John Hearns
wrote in :
On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 17:31:33 +0000, Dr Ivan D. Reid wrote:

Some of the buses in Geneva do this; I'm not sure how many, but the
Number 9 out to Meyrin/CERN/etc certainly does. I haven't seen them confused
very often, unlike the Northern Line trains that sometimes display stations
as if they were heading in the other direction or along another branch...

I know that bus well.
I wonder if it is a simple case of the driver pressing a button at each
stop?

I thought it was somehow automated, but I forget which snippet
of observation led to that conclusion.

Also look at the small TV monitors which show the door entrances to the
driver - they cut out when the bus is moving.

Yes, I'd noticed them. It's also noticeable that, except for a
couple of very minor request-only stops (Maisonnex, Pommeries), the bus
pauses at every stop regardless of whether or not passengers are waiting or
alighting. Then there's the curious fact of the timestamp on the tickets
always being a couple of minutes early...

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Ivan Reid, Electronic & Computer Engineering, ___ CMS Collaboration,
Brunel University. Room 40-1-B12, CERN